Some facts:

Liberals will not want to read this because they would not want facts to get in there way.

As J.D. Foster of the Heritage Foundation points out: “...the President proposes a budget that keeps the federal government on a thoroughly irresponsible and unsustainable course.” Please read the Heritage Foundation article and understand the $775 million in proposed cuts noted above are what the White House’s budget director Jacob Lew identified as reflecting what they perceive as some “tough calls.” Yet, as noted, they are a drop in the bucket; and the White House’s total proposed cuts for this year are still not at all enough to make us solvent.

How can the WH with a straight face say they are cutting the budget and that they are the new conservatives in town.

Palin gets it right :
The fine print reveals a White House proposal to increase taxes by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade. If you want to know how minuscule their proposed $775 million-a-year budget “cuts” really are, please look at this chart. The proposed cuts are so insignificant – less than 1/10 of 1% of this year’s $1.65 trillion budget deficit – that they are essentially invisible on the pie chart. That speaks volumes about today’s budget. See this chart to see how stupid the budget really is in terms of reducing deficit etc. http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/02/obamas-tough-budget-cuts-in-pictures.html.

We have got to watch it closely because the WH routinely uses words that can not be based in fact or they make explanations that have no bases in reality or the just plain lie because if the lie is said often enough it can become the perception of reality not reality.

I am so thankful for all the realtime media that is available today to us so we can keep an eye on our government Republicans, Democrats, Indep, and others and get the information out in a timely manner. We need to keep our eyes on the newly elected to make sure they do not vote with the majority if the vote compromises the basic reasons they were sent to congress in the first place. If there are compromisers who just said what we wanted to here they need to be called out in the public square so all can see who they are. This is not the time to sit back and to just hope they will do as they said. We are at risk of loosing our way of life and adopting a way of life that is second rate. I am not ready for that. We elect to have representation. In the past 30 years we have elected so the elected can be reelected. No more. They need to do what is right for the country and not what is right for their reelection.

They just do not get it. We are broke and she is a reason for term limits. As you can tell in her letter to me she just wants to play the same old games. Commissions, Long term debt, working for a solution etc. No votes to stop the maddness and no guts to stand up and name the issues, Social Security, Defense, To big of Government, Unions and other special interest etc.
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Here is an email exchange between Amy Klobuchar Senator Minnesota and myself over the past to days.

This is my response to here email back to me.

Feb 17

Dear Senator

Please look below to your return letter for my comments.

Thanks for a substantive response that I can respond to. My comments will be in Blue. As I watch what is happening in Wisconsin, Michigan and else where I am reminded that this is a new age of information. The powerful and rich are not the only ones to have real-time information. Please remain an honest politician. Spin does not go as far as it use to. Our politicians need to make decisions and quit talking about what they think they should do. The only special interest I hope you have is the welfare of the majority of Minnesotans

Yours truly

Terry Selby

----- Original Message -----

From: Senator@klobuchar.senate.gov

To: selby@paulbunyan.net

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:39 PM

Subject: Responding to your message

February 17, 2011

Dear Terry:

Thank you for taking the time to contact me about fiscal responsibility in these tough economic times. I appreciate hearing your thoughts about how we can encourage economic growth while remaining fiscally responsible.

Like you, I am very concerned about our long-term fiscal situation. That's why one of my major legislative initiatives has been to create a bipartisan commission(Honestly we do not need another commission. The deficit is at 14 trillion, what else do you and the congress need to know. We can not pay our bills. Please stop politicing and just vote to reduce the deficit and reduce the actuall size of Government. to fast-track recommendations to reduce our long-term deficit. Last year, I worked with 14 senators to block a statutory increase of our national debt limit until the Senate agreed to set up the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility(no need for a bipartian anything. You are required by the constiution and good common sense to make decisions that are in our best interests not the best interest of the congress).—a commission tasked with reining in the nation's debt. While I do not agree with every single recommendation included in the final report, I believe it provides a good starting point for the difficult debate we must have. In the next year, I will continue to push for legislation that promotes sound tax policy (please reduce our taxes.), eliminates unsustainable spending,(please have the courage to take on Social Security and the Defense budget) and puts in place a long-term plan to responsibly reduce the deficit.

Since I came to the Senate I have also worked to reform the way Congress conducts its own business – opposing pay raises for members of Congress, (I am sure your are aware of what Jefferson and Hamilton said about professional legislators) fighting for appropriations project reform, and working to restore pay-as-you-go rules in our budget process to ensure that we're only funding new programs if outdated or duplicative programs are cut. I worked with Senate leadership to strengthen this principle by giving Pay – Go budget restrictions the force of law (the latest budget from the President then is not going to pass with out smoke and mirrors..

As we work to get our economy back on track, I will continue to insist on fiscal restraint and oversight. As we debate the budget this year I will push for targeted and cost effective initiatives that will spur job creation and economic growth,(you and congress have already with the fed spent 3 trillion dollars and sold that debt to China. It has not worked you need some new ideas please) while at the same time insisting we make the hard choices needed to reduce our government debt in the long-term( if our debt is not reduce now there may not be a long term) What on earth makes you think this republic can barrow its way to properity.). That is why I have advocated for directing support to those that will use it most effectively. In this country, small businesses are the engines of job growth, providing 64 percent of net new jobs and employing more than 50 percent of American workers. That is why I have voted for tax credits and other initiatives to support small businesses.

There are ways to take action to help middle-class families and build a stronger, more prosperous America while still being fiscally responsible. I look forward to putting partisan differences aside to work on an agenda that creates jobs, strengthens our economy, and promotes fiscal responsibility.

Again, thank you for taking the time to contact me. One of the most important parts of my job is listening to what the people of Minnesota have to say to me. I am here in our nation's capital to do the public's business and to serve the people of our state. I hope you will contact me again about matters of concern to you.

Sincerely,

Amy Klobuchar

United States Senator

Unions Making Noise

Wisconsin, Michigan and others are about to do what should have been done years ago. The elected officials of years past have lied for years to the unions. It is not Christy of New Jersey or any other Governor or legislator currently serving that has not been in office for a long time that is to blame for this problem with unions. If we would have had term limits all along the unions would not have been able to buy politicians over the long haul. Decisions would have been different and we would not be in this mess. The collusion between setting and reelected officials has been know for years but nothing has been done about it. Why should the American people pay for the corupt decisions of the politians and the unions. It takes two to make coruption and the unions and DFL and some REPs have been corupt together for a longtime. It seems to me to be very bold of the unions to publicly protest the fact that the coruption is in the public eye. I would think they would be ashamed of their past behavior. The pensions, salary, and work rules and access to other benifits is so far over the top that I can not understand the unions over the top response to cuts. Who do they think is going to pay for all this. There is no money at the Federal, State or Local Level. Apparently they just want you to take it out of your own mouth and give it to them. Not going to happen anymore.

Straight from the White House spin Machine. I will mark the lies in Red the Truth in Blue

"With the worst recession in generations behind us((foreclosures to outpace last year to 1.5 million), President Obama has put forward a plan to rebuild (teardown is a better adj. Adding tax and increasing size of gov is what has not worked)our economy and win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the rest of the world . (China can do this but with regulation and gov in the way there is no way we can do this. Gates is the pidepipper of inovation and he does not believe this.)But we cannot win the future if we pass a mountain of debt (this is right on, then how with a 1.5 Trillion deficit in the next budget can you even say this in the same sentence as he just did.) on to our children and our grandchildren.

That's why the President's 2012 federal budget takes responsibility for our deficits (how do you take responsibility by adding to the deficit) and puts the nation on a path to live within its means (a 1.5 million deficit is not living within our means. The lie is massive and the logic flawed.) . It's a responsible approach (It is the largest lie the Whites could attempt to get past the American people.)that cuts wasteful spending and, as so many American families must do every day, it makes tough choices (the tough choices are in healthcare and defense. He has not touched them) on things we can't afford. This plan institutes a five-year spending freeze (not on the big ticket items. When have you ever seen congress spend less. Great dreaming but not born out by the facts of history) that will reduce domestic spending to its lowest level since the Eisenhower administration.

Over the next decade, it reduces the deficit by more than $1 trillion (he has reduced nothing in fact he has added 3.5 million to the deficits. He is smoke and mirrors with his projections. The question is what has he cut today, NOTHING> ) -- two-thirds of it from spending cuts. Through this budget, the President meets his pledge to cut the deficit he inherited in half by the end of his first term.

In addition to responsible spending cuts, the President¹s budget makes targeted investments (Spending is the correct word) in America's incubators of growth: education, innovation, clean energy, and infrastructure. It reforms how Washington does business, (Washingotn should not be doing business it should be governing and not attempting to runa free enterprize system. It should not own Insurance companies, banks, auto companies and certainly should not be printing Trillions of dollars) putting more federal funding up for competition and reforming government to make it smarter, more effective and better prepared to meet the needs of the 21st century."

As can be seen by my corrections to the above lie and spin form the White House not much of what is said has a partical of truth. It is a sales gimic attempting to use what the people want, (smaller government, less spending Less governmenet in our lives) to sell larger Government, more spending and more taxes to fund their powerful positions.

One thing is clear, wheather you agree totally or partially, our government has stopped listening to the average guy and women on the street. They just want us to pay them. Why do you think you can enter congress not wealthy and leave years later a multimillionaire.

Hey, another day another spin and the attempt to change reality to the preception not the fact:

Here we sit once again listening to spin not information regarding the uprisings in the Middle East. O says that he did it. The social network people say they did it. The Muslim brotherhood say they did it. Some say they should not have done it and others say they did not do enough. The only thing I am interested in in the political world are two of the most important things in our history. One, we need term limits so we can return some sense of reality to our political process. and second we need to cut, cut, cut. Our countrys defficit has been an issue for years but it has always been kicked down the road. The road is at a dead end. If the congress and the president can not break the ways of old then we need to take a lesson from the Egyptions and take charge of our government until they decide it is not there government but it is ours. I was hopeful with the tea party this past fall. But I am affraid it is to little to late. The powers to be will not let go of there power. I believe that the powers to be will do anything to maintain their potions of power. They will lie, steal, spin, even cause crises to keep the focus off of them. we need to not loose site of what our country needs to do overr the next elections cycle.

It is hard to believe that our President just suggest a Budget that has another 1.5 T dollar deficit with increased taxes and increase spending. What reality is he living in. He is still speaking to his base and not at the least interested in what is really happening in the real would of housing, education and health care.

Rangle deserved everything he got. He was a war hero who lost his way because nobody can withstand the pressure of money and power for ever. That is why the founding fathers decided that we would loss or liberty and the representative form of government if we allowed the legislators to access the treasury and become professional politicians. Rangle was professional politician and his only interest was to maintain his power and gather more money. He even thought he was above it all with all the power he had. Not so but he should have been out of there for years. This would not have had to happen. He did not represent his constituancy he represneeted his own interest. This is not where it started but his is what happens when a person is exposed to greed, power, money for to long.

Term LImits

It is election time and it is time to elect those who will vote for and or self regulate a term limit. Hamilton and Jefferson were very clear on their opions on a professional class of polititians. Do not pay them well. Make sure the have to return to their communitites on a regular basis. Do not let them get there hands on the countrys treasury. They not take long to understand that if they have the power to devy out the treasury that will give them power manipulate the treasurey to their own interest. Hamilton and Jefferson both spoke of the nature of man. That if you give him that much access to money and power he will become corrupt even if he or she does not want to. We have forgot that the nature of man altimately rules our lives. We need to not just blindly believe. We need to vote with the understanding that even if you can not see it, as with Clinton and others, the long term politicians is corupt by his nature. Especially those who have been in the congress for a period of time. Remember if you vote for anything other than term limited canidates you are voting to keep thins as they are and you are telling the corupt politicians that is all he she has to do is to keep lying to you and you will believe.